Author Archive: Bob Buskirk

SanDisk Unveils 200GB microSDXC Card

At Mobile World Congress SanDisk has unveiled the world’s highest capacity microSDXC card. This comes a year after SanDisk announced the record-breaking 128 GB SanDisk Ultra microSDXC card. SanDisk has now increased storage capacity by 56% up to 200 GB and still keeps the same fingernail-sized form factor.

Half-Life 3 Rumors Spring Up as Valve Announces GDC Press Conference

Half-Life 3 rumors have been going on for YEARS now! Everyone wants to see a third iteration of the very popular game come out and it looks like Valve is teasing anxious gamers again. RagnarRox has said that Valve has scheduled a public press-conference for the 3rd of March at 3 PM. That is the third month of the year, om the third day in that month, at 3 PM. Is this just a simple coincidence?

Phanteks Announces Enthoo EVOLV ITX Chassis

Phanteks introduce their first Mini ITX, a budget oriented chassis that uses metal exterior, to their EVOLV lineup in the Enthoo Series. The case has many useful features, such as a unique bracket solution for a radiator on top and a multi-functional mid plate bracket for a reservoir, pump, and SSD/HDD.

Microsoft Finally Allows Customers To Legally Download Windows 7 ISOs

For some odd reason Microsoft has made it quite the task to procure a legitimate ISO image of Windows 7. You would think they would have an easy to find place on their website for ISO images, because remember you really cannot take advantage of these ISO images unless you have a proper legal key. So many people end up losing the disc or ISO they previously had making it quite the challenge to get a replacement.

ThinkComputers Weekly Tech Podcast #1 – Our First Podcast!

Welcome to our first Podcast! We have decided to do a Weekly Tech Podcast were we go over the reviews we have done for the week, tech news for the week and anything else that is going on in the current week.

Apple Event Scheduled For March 9th Ahead of Watch Launch

Apple has sent out media invitations for an event that is set to take place March 9th. The tagline for the event is “Spring Forward”, which many speculate is a reference to Daylight Savings Time which means more news coming about Apple’s upcoming Watch.

Case Mod Friday: Loramentum

Welcome to another Case Mod Friday showcase! This week we have MakiRole’s “Loramentum” build. It is a watercooled wall mounted rig, but with a twist. I wanted to be able to take this build to LAN events relatively simply. The main framework is constructed from machined acrylic, with the reservoir and a fair bit of the tubing integrated into the chassis itself. The RAM and waterblock were gold plated to fit with the theme, along with full custom cabling, the motherboard is the only unmodded component! The whole build fits neatly into a flight case for easier transport too, bit heavy though.

20 of the Worst PC Setups – February 2015

I’m sure at some point you had a bad PC setup. Maybe moving into a new place, waiting for a new desk to arrive or you just ran out of room. I can remember my horrible PC setups from when I was living at the dorms in college. If you have ever ventured over to the Shitty Battlestations sub-reddit you will find a lot of horrible PC setups. We will are going to pick 20 each month and feature them as 20 of the Worst PC setups for that month. Here are some of the bad ones from February!

NVIDIA to Reveal New Gaming Platform

A new website has been launched by NVIDIA called Made to Game. It teases an upcoming project that is said to be a brand new gaming platform. This new platform will be unveiled next week at an event in San Francisco.